Ok, so I left off talking about the auto-surgery
machine in the movie Prometheus. I was comparing it to the DaVinci surgical
system. This system makes much smaller
incisions compared to doing the same surgery by hand. They achieve this by using
robotics. They have a small 3-d high definition camera attached to one arm and
then pincers that can handle tools on the other arms. This is all controlled by
a surgeon who uses a controller and screen to maneuver these devices. The whole
thing is also put up onto a screen for the rest of the people in the O.R. to
see. The machine isn’t programmable and will never move without direct input
from the surgeon running the controls. There’s a long list of surgeries it is
capable of doing and I’m sure the list is getting even longer. On their website
they split it up as follows; cardiac,
colorectal, gynecology, thoracic, urology, head & neck, and general ( which includes achalasia (swallowing disorder), gallbladder disease & stones, pancreatic disease (pancreatitis & cancer), stomach cancer, Obesity ) (1) All in all it’s pretty awesome and the machines cost
about $1.3 million dollars.(2)
